More faux-intellectualism: the appeal to other ways of knowing
In this comments thread, we’ve been visited once again by Rhology, who says: I don’t agree that God is unprovable or unproven. Not provable by naturalistic means, of course, but there’s no reason to...
View ArticleWhy and How
Many years ago, a Krishna friend said to me, “People often ask ‘why?,’ when what they really mean is ‘how?’” Initially, this statement confused me. But he explained it further. It made sense to me. And...
View ArticleChuck Colson’s dubious prison statistics
I am saving up material to discuss with Chuck Colson, but I couldn’t wait on this bit. While reading his new book, The Faith, I came across a passage in which he touted the great success of his prison...
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Yomin Postelnik, poster-boy for arrogant theistic fractal wrongness
Jan. 2009 Introduction & Addendum: The following snarkalicious post has since become somewhat legendary in the atheist/creationism/science blogosphere. To cut a long story short, this is the one...
View ArticlePascal’s Wager dies and is dead like a dead thing
Thanks to viewer Quinn Martindale for posting this quick snippet from a show this March in which Matt Dillahunty, in two minutes, says everything that needs to be said to destroy the most tired and...
View ArticleHow to Stack a Deck
Last night I watched three episodes of a program called “Paranormal State.” It is billed as “true stories of a team of paranormal researches from the Pennsylvania State University Paranormal Research...
View ArticleCan You Spot the Strawman in this Picture?
Who didn’t love Highlights as a kid? It was probably the only positive thing about visiting the dentist that I can recall. Everybody’s favorite thing was the Hidden Pictures—but only if the images...
View ArticleAnswering the right questions…
Reposted from my Facebook notes, by request: “What proof and evidence can you provide that atheism is accurate and correct?” Atheism is not a world view or a philosophy, it does not assert claims that...
View ArticleHuckabee’s Fund Raising Letter
Jen and I will be doing the January 30th show. We’ll be looking at the distortions, half-truths, and outright lies in a fund raising letter sent by Mike Huckabee. One of our members received it (we...
View ArticleOpen thread on episode #695
Today’s show was, as usual, fraught with difficulties, though not as many as we originally suspected. Once again, the calls were problematic, with some callers having a hard time hearing us. Whether...
View ArticleOpen Thread for Episode 20.43: Russell and Tracie
Today I want to share two stories that were told to me by different people about their personal experiences and conclusions they drew from those experiences. Interestingly, although they are different...
View ArticleCaller Kris from Episode 21:20 – Further Thoughts
I have often wondered to myself what I might have said to my younger, theist self, if I had that opportunity now, and whether anything I could have said would have made any difference to me then. The...
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